Gubernatorial race was not close at all and that, too, may be telling. Voters overwhelmingly chose the socalled establishment candidate Gretchen Whitmer over the Progressive Choice backed by Bernie Sanders among others. Lets start in ohio with ryan noble nobles. This race isnt called because there is a masmall marg between Troy Balderson and Danny Oconnor. Its a 1700 vote lead. The reason the election cant be certified yet is there are 8,000 professional and Absentee Ballots that have yet to be counted and it will take a week for all of that counting to take place and then the other variable that could take place that is if the margin shrinks to less than half a percentage
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. You snoozed in the makeup room. Theres a bag of wendys down stairs. Spicy chicken sandwich. Leave it alone. I had two of them. Fantastic. We have a lot to get to. Looking in ohio, so much money, so much time, so much energy spent for a three month job. These guys face off. I thought the statement by the Congressional Leadership Fund which is a big republican focused House Super Pac and the thing they said was look, were happy you won Troy Balderson but we dont have 3. 3 plld to everyone who is is a district that donald trump won by 11 points. You have lots and lots of
republicans getting outraised by their democratic challengers. Two, special elections are called special elections for a reason. There was one big house Race General Election last night so if you are the Congressional Leadership Fund or the Democratic Congressional committee you can spend your money there. You dont that luxury when youre looking at a Playing Field getting bigger and bigger and tilting more and more towards democrats. If balderson survives a win is a win, right . Or a win isnt a win here . Look, youll take a win, its an extra incumbent running in the fall, the net gain stands at 23 the democrats need instead of going down to 22. The fact is that this is a district thats been held by republicans since the 1980s, a district on the president ial level that donald trump won by 11. If you look at the races dating back to 2012, the average republican has won by greater than 20 percentage points. There are a lot more districts. In fact, there are 70 more districts that republicans currently hold where Hillary Clinton did better than this particular district so if the best that they can do here is
basically a slight win, that is not good news for republicans come fall. And when you look nationwide at this big picture youve got the democrat who beat the partys 2016 performance by double digits. The Washington Post this morning is saying the house and perhaps even the senate are within their grass in november so, yes, nationwide. What does this tell us about november big picture . I think pause on the senate for a couple difference reasons. Republicans are only defending nine seats. Democrats are defending 23, 24 seats, ten in states President Trump won. Republicans should be on offense. The map has shifted. Democrats are in a better place because of the National Mood but we arent there yet. On the house, if you combine what harry and chris have said about the ability to play in so many races. If you look at the kind of trump base rural areas, look into lincoln county, they didnt have those counties probably gave him the win, pushed him over the top, they were not turning out with major the way the democrats are. So if you look at the fact that there are 70 races that trend better than democrats and the protrump Base Isnt Turning Out with the same enthusiasm, thats a problem and the president clearly came in to help those rural areas turn out and that turnout probably did lead to baldersons win but but a win that hasnt been called yet. Alleged win. Maybe win. Even if he does win, i think what you cannot do if you are a smart republican is a mistake winning a battle for winning the war. Look, we all like sports. Youre much better off winning than losing but you cant think that this if youre a republican who sits in a district that is less good for your party than this one you cant think, whoo, Troy Balderson won. Im good. No. The lessons the suburban lesson that phil highlights, the turnout lessons, the Money Lessons all still suggest this is going to be a good election for democrats. Thats not a debate. The debate is how big does the wave get . And i dont know that last night proves it gets smaller. Harry, talking about canvas canvakansas. Thats a close race. You have to president s pick kris kobach who led briefly the voter Fraud Investigation that found nothing and there was no reason to set it up but i digress. He is running 500 points ahead against now 200. Okay, now down 200. Democrats are rooting for him. Long time since tip oneill observed all politics is local. Is this about National Trends . Everything ive heard when ive gone on the ground in districts and when you talk to members before they went on recess that s that this is a referendum on the president. First time midterms actually are and thats why first term midterms generally the party of power in the white house takes a big hit. A good sign things are not heading in your direction is when you come out of Closed Door Meetings and say we are only going to focus on localizing our races. If you go back to 2010 you saw democrats saying that. In more in 2014, too. In 2018 when Kevin Mccarthy and folks coming out of nrcc meetings saying this is about localizing our races, raising money and talking about the issues that matter in our districts, that means you have a problem. Now they have good frontline candidates that are at risk that could win, could win because they raise money. When you look at the sheer scope and scale of the map, when
youre talking about the Need To Localize Races at a time when its very much a National Conversation, that adds to the hurdles. Hard to localize elections with donald trump in the white house. There you go. Hard to do it anyway now but quickly, chris, the union vote in missouri. Yeah, i think not unimportant. This is right to work is something that a big deal after the Supreme Court decision. Huge deal. And weve seen union power somewhat reduced in elections. In the 1990s democratic endorse ment left. So whats difficult is this is missouri. Josh hawley, they got the candidate they wanted, republicans did. When you have enough elections, theres the good over here where you can say right to work gone. Thats great. Good Organizing Principle for democrats. On the other side its hard to
say josh hawley wasnt the best candidate for republicans and Claire Mccaskell still isnt vulnerable. Harry and i talk about this offline. With these elections you can kind of pick what you want. Balderson won ohio maybe. Balderson is ahead you guys are going to get me in trouble but thats not the end of the story. You can take what you want and the missouri right to work same thing. You take what you want from it. Well see, we only have 90ish days before were going to find more out soon. More wendys. Go to wendys, go to sleep double spicy chicken. Disgusting. Not healthy. Oh, really . Back to earth here. Minutes from now, Paul ManafortsDeputy Rick Gates returns to the stand for a Third Straight day as he lays out for the first time the roam he and manafort he says had and talks about the detail of it within the Trump Campaign. Also there is no relief in sight for the firefighters on front lines in california. It could take weeks to get the states largest fire ever contained. And of course we are following the results in ohio as they pour in, a thrace is too clorace tha call. Can democrats eke out a win . Ill have ask the vice chair of the Democratic National committee. Movie theaters, Exercise Rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. And theres never been an easier way to get great advice. A place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. A place for mom. You know your family we know senior living. Together well make the right choice. Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away. We cantwhy . Y here flat toilet paper ill never get clean way ahead of you. Charmin ultra strong. It cleans better. Its four times stronger and you can use less. Enjoy the go with charmin. Welcome back. We are minutes away from rick gates taking the Witness Stand again for a Third Straight day to resume what has been an explosive crossexamination of Paul Manaforts former right hand man and manaforts lawyers are expected to pick up where they left off, trying to smear gates credibility. Lets go to the rouse in alexandria, virginia, joe johns with me outside. What are we expecting today . Certainly more crossexamination, at least for a minimum of an hour, perhaps
more here. This is the part of the trial where rick gates really has to earn that Plea Agreement he has with the government. Hes been forced to make some damaging admissions not just about the crimes he committed and the crimes he says he committed with Paul Manafort but also about his own personal Character Flaws lying, stealing, heating on his wife, all of that coming out in court on crossexamination and one of the most interesting things i think beyond the cope of this trial, there was also a little bit of talk about what manafort and gates did when they worked for Trump Campaign in 2016. Manafort of course was the campaign chairman, he left and mr. Gates stayed on all the way through the inaugural period and there was some testimony from Gates Yesterday that even when
manafort left the campaign he was still trying to work it, one example was trying to get a banker whod helped him get a loan to be nominated for secretary of the army, poppy. That is significant. Joe, thank you very much. Lets talk about that and more with paul callan, our legal analyst. Lets jump off on that. The jury heard the extent to which manafort and gates worked for the Trump Campaign, the prosecution showed and presented these emails where you see manafort imploring gates to help him, to help a banker by to help make inroads with the campaign. Why is that significant . In a couple ways in this trial. If judge initially was preventing prosecutors from even mentioning the trump name during the trial. Now were seeing links to the Trump Campaign. In this particular instance,
manafort is in deep trouble by 2015. Hes run out of money, hes broke and he starts trying to figure a way to avoid taxes by saying that income were loans from banks and gates in the background is following instructions and dealing with this banker, steven caulk, who we later find out theyre pushing with trump to name him as secretary of the army. Obviously he was not named. The attempt here is whats exactly. It shows they were trying to use their leverage with the Trump Campaign to engage in illegal banking activities. We know that a lot more about rick gates this morning, frankly, because of what he admitted than we did 24 hours ago, among them that he was unfaithful to his wife, that he embezzled money from his former boss, that he faked an investment document, that he lied to investigators earlier this year after he had been
spoken to by them about a plea deal then Paul Manaforts lawyer asked him this and let me read it verbatim. After all of the lies you told and fraud you committed you expect this jury to believe you . Gates response, yes, i made a decision, im here to tell the truth, mr. Manafort had the same path, im here. Hes saying im cooperating, manaforts not therefore believe me. How successful do you think manaforts defense team was . I thought overall the defense team has been very effective in crossexamining rick gates. This is always a down side for the prosecutor when you call Somebody Turning against Somebody Else who made a deal. You can dirty them up for the deal itself but with manafort theyve got a secret life they talk about. A secret life with a mistress and he needs money to fund the secret life and theyre trying to say all of the feonefarious
activities blamed on manafort were orchestrated by gates to fund his secret life and hes had the courage to come forward to testify, say prosecutors. I think it was interesting, the New York Times laid this out nicely, that judge ellis at one point got involved and seemed to pick up the defense teams line of argument here because when gates asserted mr. Manafort was very good at knowing where the money was and where it was going judge ellis jumps in. He points out okay mr. Manafort didnt know about the money you were stealing from him so he didnt watch it that closely . Yeah, when i try cases i hate it when the judge jumps in and starts doing his own questioning. They do this frequently in federal courts. But i think a judges job is to call balls and strikes, in other words not get involved in trying one sides case or the other so im surprised that ellis did that and i think its a bad practice but i have to tell you, it happens all the time in federal trials. Much more ahead today in just
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northern california has burned dozens of homes to the ground. Its scorched nearly 300,000 acre. To get a sense of how large this is, its grown to the size of los angeles but fire crews may finally be getting help and gaining ground against it. Lets go to dan simon who is with me from california. The fire has slowed down significantly but youre still talking about a mindboggling number. 450 scorched miles. The fire swept through this valley and came upon this house behind me, one of 75 homes destroyed. This was somebodys dream house and the homeowners say they did everything they could to protect their home from wildfires. They cleared the area of brush, set up this defensible barrier with the rocks and gravel but in
their words, the fire had another agenda, take a look. I cant imagine what its luke to go through this. Whats the hardest thing . I just want to go home. Yesterday when i arrived all the stucco was standing, Everything Else had burned but the stuck woe was up and it was real unstable and that was hard to see because you could tell where the staircase and everything was and it was like trying to picture what our home is like. And of course there are so many people throughout the state who are grappling with similar emotions. You have 17 major wildfires, 13,000 firefighters on the lines. More in than in any other point in state history and you have fire fight from from overseas, some from new zealand and australia. The fire continues to be fuelled by dry brush and high
temperatures. Hopefully theyll begin making even more progress. Were talking about 34 on coen tim kainement. Shes saying that was our home and of course all you want to do is home home and they cant. Thats the reality for so many people across california. Thank you for the reporting. Ohios special election is too close to call. The republican candidate has a slight lead. Democrats not giving up the fight, joining me next the vice chair of the dnc to talk about this razorthin race. Moment. Before that, back to ohio. Cnn not calling a winner the race for ohios 12th Congressional District because its that close. Troy balderson holding a slight lead over democrat Danny Oconnor. Balderson claiming victory, oconnor not conceding. Can democrats pull this off . Vice chair of the dnc Michael Blake joins me now. Nice to have you with us. Great to be with you. When you look at that race. The predecessor, the republican won by 35 point, the president won by 11 points. If the democrat can pull this off, its huge for you guys. Even coming this close is huge for you guys. Republicans outspent democrats five times. Should democrats have spent more . We made incredible investments and we want to thank our staff and volunteers in the state and dnc for this but when we think about this race, this is a seat the republicans should have easily. The fact that we are having this conversation where there are
thousands of ballots still out, republicans should be very scared. 60 seats across the country are more competitive. Theres a reason why this momentum is happening. We invested from the dnc, well do many. I had David Urban On who is a strategist for the Trump Campaign. We were talking about ohio 12. Heres what he told me. Lets play that. These folks are blue dog democrats, both Danny Oconnor as well as conor lamb, both have said they would not vote for nancy pelosi for speaker, they are trying to distance themselves from the Democratic Party and run as republicans. Hes saying you guys, these Guys Arent Running as democrats, what do you say . I laugh. Hes giving you an urban smith. Democrats have been fighting for jobs and opportunities. Republicans have had a tax bill that has been a failure. Weve been fighting on medicaid expansion, they want to take your health care away. We are fighting for the people, they are not. When we talk about i will vote, its a vision from the dnc of how do we get 30 Million People to vote who havent voted in midterm elections . We have an agenda to run on, thats why danny ococonnor did so. We. Rnc chairwoman Rhonda Mcdaniel said this and i quote. Voters are tired of democrats message of resist and obstruct. And i was looking on twitter and you posted a video of you talking about getting out the vote and heres what you said about republicans. Play it. They are being very clear, they dont want you in the process, they dont want you involved, they dont care about your voices. You want to be engaged, vote out republicans. You want to be engaged, vote out republicans. That was a very clear message, what i didnt hear in that message was vote for us democrats because here is what we stand for. Is your party missing more of that . Not at all. Poppy, as you know from media we
shouldnt take 30second clips and make that an overall. When we talk about overall messaging, weve been very clear. We are fighting for jobs, education and health care but we cannot ignore what republicans have stood for. Theyre putting kids in cages i watched the whole clip, you could have posted as long as a clip as you want. It was 60 seconds. You said come to me, well talk about education and criminal Justice Reform but your main message was go to the polls to vote out republicans. Is that a Winning Strategy for democrats come november . Do you need more. You just said what i talked about, vote for education, vote for jobs and vote out republicans. You say this now. Iwillvote. Com is another effort. Look at what happened in michigan. Michigan had women winning up and down the ballot because of a positive message. What happened in the state of washington, the fact you had an incumbent republican struggling, because we are talking through
how democrats are fighting for jobs and education and health care. So building on my question is robby mook, Hillary Clintons former Campaign Manager who warned as you red in the New York Times in his opinion piece, he warned democrats sort of a flag of warning here and he said democrats need to not focus just on the president s controversies and if they do that they keep focussing The Public Eye on that, the shiny object, instead of the implications of his policies. Does he have a point for your party . He has a point but its wrong. You cant ignore the fact that its inhumane, racist and discriminatory that there are kids in cages rather than schools. You cannot ignore your Republican Party thats been silent on misogyny. You cant ignore these things. So democrats are fighting for the people. We cant ignore the absurdities of Whats Going On in d. C. And
how they have impact on if ground and your previous segment, part of the conversation, you cant ignore the National Conversation on the ground so going into november. Why have we had 44 state legislative flips . Why do we have doug jones and conor lamb . Because we are fighting for people in a direct way. We wont be silent about what republicans are talking about why simultaneously talking about our vision. Democrats are fighting for jobs, education, and health care. Republicans are trying to take those elements away. This is a fight that continues. Well see what happens in ohio, specifically it continues through november. Michael blake, thank you so much. Assemblyman for joining me, vice chair of the dnc, i have to jump because i have to get back to Breaking News. Appreciate you being here. All right, back to our Breaking News, the Justice Department just moments ago announcing that republican congressman Chris Collins of new york has been indicted on securities fraud. Shimon prokupecz is with me and has the details. This is significant. These are allegations from the Justice Department. Walk us through them. Allegations from the Justice Department, the Southern District of new york and the fbi. He was arrested, taken into custody in morning by the fbi in new york. There will be a Press Conference this afternoon at the Southern District of new york so this is related to pharmaceuticals, drug trials. Christopher collins, as you said, the republican from new york was taken into custody. He surrendered to his attorney and then went to the fbi. Hes charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, false statement and basically this also involves his son Cameron Collins and another individual by the name of steven czarski. We expect to learn more at this Press Conference. The 30page indictment unsealed moments ago so were going through that to learn more but as you said poppy nonetheless significa significant. Hes under arrest and will face
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congress. Paul cow an, you were a state wide prosecutor in new york. I know you havent read through the indictment but we know representative Chris Collins representative a 27th district, western new york. These are very serious charges. Hes turned himself over to the authorities, at his Attorneys Office in manhattan this morning. Again the allegations securities fraud, wire fraud, false statements, and this also involves his son, charges against his son, Cameron Collins. Very unusual. We do see politicians get indicted from time to time. Theres no question about that. But a congressman, a sitting congressman, charged with Insider Trading and these kinds of frauds, it is very, very unusual. Extremely unusual. These charges were filed with, of course, the securities and exchange commission. Let me talk to you a little bit about just reading the beginning of this indictment. The indictment lays out the
this is about alleged Insired Trading at a Biotech Company called immuno therapeutics limited. In june 2017 collins was on the board of this australian biotech firm called innate immuno therapeutics. If you just would lay out for people what would concentrate Insider Trading. Again, not specific to this case, but what action would be alleged in a case like this. People, in general, think about it as, you get an illegal stock tip from somebody who works for the company that the companys going to merge with Somebody Else or the companys going to develop a new drug, that sort of thing. Based on that tip, you go out and buy stock which then rises in value. Thats your classic that is your classic Insider Trading charge. Now someone who served on the o would have being a saccess to i
information. Did he pass that along to someone else and did he or his friend profit from that. These are the things youll see with any indictment of this crime. This allegation that he, collins, learned nonpublic information about Clinical Trials for a drug being developed by the firm. And then the question would be, did he act on that. Did he act on that. Did he act on nonpublic information. Thats the question. The informations always nonpublic. If it is published information, anybody whos researching the stock can get information. But if hes got insider information, the law says thats illegal and if he profits from it, thats a crime. Paul collins, well get a quick break in. Stay with me. More Breaking News straight ahead. You finished preparing overhim for college. Rs, in 24 hours, youll send him off thinking youve done everything for his wellbeing. But meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. While meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. Like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. Meningitis b strikes quickly. Be quick to talk to your teens doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. Will be hit with a 25 tariff. A 25 tax. This will start in just a few weeks on august 23rd. 279 products among these, including motorcycles, antennas, different chemical imports, Element Electronics which is a plant in South Carolina who says it will have to shutter, it will have to close its doors and lay off almost all of its employees as a direct result of the tariffs on these chinese imports. The layoffs will start in october. We are talking about 126 workers. The company says it hopes to reopen in three to six months depending on what happens. There could also be layoffs at a different South Carolina facility. Why . Again, because of the tariffs. That is the fear of bmws largest plant in this country in spartanburg. Mart Martin Savidge reports. Reporter it may not look like it, but spartanburg, South Carolina, is a war zone, a trade war, thanks to the president most folks here voted for. Spartanburg is home to the largest b mcht w plant in the
world. Last year they made more than 370,000 luxury suvs, employing 10,000 people. Pumping billions in to the states economy. Is it safe to say how well bmw does is how well Spartanburg County does . You might could say that because there is a lot of industry in Spartanburg County that are directly connected to bmw. Growth, jobs, and i know that thats brought in a lot of families in to the area. Brings money in to the area. Reporter spartan duburgs a deep red, meaning in 2016 the county voted 63 for donald trump. But President Trump has threatened to place tariffs on imported bmw vehicles and parts. That could make bmws made and sold in america a lot more expensive. The company is already feeling the impact of trumps trade war with china. Over 80,000 spartanburgmade bmw suvs are sold in china every
year. Now chinas striking back placing tariffs on the americanmade vehicles. It is an mick doublewhammy of trumps making which bmw says could have negative effects on investment and employment in the united states. In other words, b in. W might have to scale Back Production and lay off workers in spartanburg. I feel like i helped birth bmw. Reporter hes a trump backer. How concerned are you now of talk of tariffs and trade war . Extremely concerned because the Ripple Effect it goes beyond bmw and the automotive industry. Reporter hes one of the few republican politicians in the country willing to tell trump hes wrong. These tariffs could put the foot on the throat of growth and stop it. We dont need that. Reporter other Trump Supporters we talked to here say they support the president s policies but some are concerned. None wanted to talk on camera. They arent the only ones reluctant to speak out. Many South Carolina companies
are also concerned but fear if they criticize the president s policies, theyll become a target of his twitter rar eter h like what happened with harleydavidson. The president s shown you are better off working with this administration on issues and help them get to the right answer. Reporter ironically trumps tough talk on trade was part of his appeal to voters in South Carolina. Now theres growing concern trumps trade war is about to backfire on them. And possibly eventually on him. I dont see this issue changing voters minds. Now if you look down the road and there are concerns. That was our Martin Savidge reporting. Despite concerns about these tariffs, bmw tells us their plant in spartanburg will soon be making a new car. They say theyll need to hire about 1,000 new employees for that. Right now they are still planning on that. Good morning, everyone